Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Markus, Julia.
Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
(Bloomsbury, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. viii + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-C7304
Keywords: 0747522960, women writers, woman's history, woman, poets, poetry, poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, marriage, marital, elopement, Italy, Italian, eloping, courtship, Victorian, nineteenth century, letters, correspondence, literature, literary, romance, Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, William Story, Harriet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, George Sand, morphine, spiritualism, depression
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Dittmer, Lowell.
China Under Reform:
(Westview Press, 1994).
Politics in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Paperback. Very good. xii + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A6992
Keywords: 0813311209, international, politics, political, economics, economy, China, Chinese, Lowell Dittmer, history, twentieth century, 20th, communism, communists, CCP, revolutions, revolutionary
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Elizabeth, Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. Vol I: With an Introduction by Mrs H. B. Stowe
(M. W. Dodd, fifth edition, 1847).
Vol 1: Personal Recollections, Osric ( a poem), the Rockite, Helen Fleetwood, The Siege of Derry, Letters from Ireland, Miscellaneous Poems, The Flower Garden. Hardback. Some loss to spine at top and bottom end, rubbing to edges, light foxing, otherwise good, solid and complete. 753pp. Order No. NSBK-C15365
Keywords: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Harriet Beecher Stowe, American women, literature
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Robinson, Lillian S.
Sex, Class and Culture:
(Methuen, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good+. xxxiii + 349pp. Order No. NSBK-C12560
Keywords: 0416012418, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sex, class, classes, culture, twentieth century, 20th
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Brivati, Brian and Cockett, Richard, eds.
Anatomy of Decline: The Political Journalism of Peter Jenkins
(Cassell, 1995).
With an introduction by Polly Toynbee and Foreword by David Owen. Hardback. Near fine in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. Book plate stuck to fly leaf. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A10134
Keywords: 0304344761, politics, political, Peter Jenkins, journalism, journalists, twentieth century, media, newspapers, journals, Magazines, Washington correspondent
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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Dyer Brothers, first edition, 1897).
For the collector. Pamphlet. Light foxing to paper covers, minor biro date written on top corner front cover, otherwise very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-C15465
Keywords: B0187JJR04, pamphlet, pamphlets, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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O'Barr, Jean and Wyer, Mary.
Engaging Feminism: Students Speak Up and Speak Out
(Virginia UP, 1992).
Paperback. Fine. x + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-C11086
Keywords: 081391387X, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, graduates, undergraduates
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. X Library with usual library stamps. Lacks flyleaf, otherwise good. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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White, Antonia.
Frost in May:
(Virago, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Good. x + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3712
Keywords: 0860680495, women writers, Antonia White, nuns, convents, Church, novel, Edwardian, novels
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